CHURCHES ISSUE STATEMENT ON ROLE OF CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ISLAMIC EDUCATION
Last year the Australian Government announced a grant of $8 million toward the establishment of a world class national Institute of Islamic Studies at an Australian university. At the time the Minister for Science, Education and Training, Julie Bishop said, “A national centre of […]
Missionaries in Mozambique. This letter is published on the House2House web site. www.house2house.com
A little over four years ago Heidi and I, along with Surpresa Sithole, our Mozambican international director, flew to Nairobi in our little Cessna for a leadership conference. On the way back we stopped in Pemba in Mozambique’s far northern province of Cabo Delgado, and […]
Someone has contacted us to ask if there is a home church, or folk interested to be a part of one, in Windsor Gardens. Contact OIKOS via the web site if you can assist in this enquiry.
Nathan has had to resign management of our web site. He set up the web site and more recently, the Blog. He started with us when he was a university student, but he is now married with a child, working and starting a B.Th. degree. We have been very blessed to have […]
‘Helpful Hints for Hosting the Lord’s Supper’ by Sandra Atkerson, New Testament Restoration Foundation. www.ntrf.org
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www.ausprayernet.org.au JUSTICE HAS A FRONT SEAT AT HILLSONG CONFERENCE
With themes of unity, courage, justice and freedom, this year’s Hillsong conference held last week in Sydney, which each year is the largest single gathering of Christians in Australia, had the ring of a United Nations convention rather than a church gathering.
Criticised in the past for its deemed emphasis […]
He first saw the girl with long raven-black hair walking ahead of him along the shopping strip. She turned, and he saw her face. His heart almost stopped at her beauty. He could not get her face out of his mind, and he kept going to the shops hoping to see her once more. A […]
Graham and Judy Wheat of Coomera Christian Community (home churches with the Baptist Church) organised a gathering for home church people at Mudgeeraba on the Gold Cost for an informal picnic and opportunity to meet one another. Bruce and Rose Kerr, OIKOS Queensland, joined the gathering and said it was a great success with 100 folk present. People were […]
OIKOS has always encouraged Aussie home churches to be aware of the wider home church movement in this country and overseas. It helps home churches to be more outward focused and to gain inspiration, encouragement and ideas from the ways God is working outside their own group. I try to include some overseas news on […]
By Rolland and Heidi Baker
Iris Ministries, Inc.
Pemba, Mozambique
6 July 2007
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What motivates us to keep going? What puts energy into our spirits when we run out of answers and resources? How do we stay patient and upbeat when the outlook seems bleak, yet again? Where does our power to live, serve and give come from? […]